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Review/summary: Anthony Venn-Brown: A Life of Unlearning (a preacher’s struggle with his homosexuality, church and faith). Revised ed., 2015.

‘Sitting on the edge of the cliff I cursed the day I was born.

When terror strikes, Saudi Arabia evades responsibility

Laila Lalami November 18, 2015 We cannot defeat IS without defeating Wahhabi theology. And that means spending as much effort in defending liberal ideas. What happened in Paris on November 13 has happened before, in a shopping district of Beirut on November 12, in the skies over Egypt on October 31, at a cultural centre […]

How to confront this Islamo-Fascist plague

November 16, 2015 Bruce Hearn Mackinnon Enough is enough. We now need some straight talking, from mainstream Muslims but also from the leaders of the West.

British doctor: I cannot forget Syria’s dead and dying children

I have seen the horrors of Syria. This Friday we can end them During heart-rending medical missions to Aleppo, I operated on the innocent victims of a war the West has failed to stop. This week’s peace conference must replace inaction with action The remains of the Great Mosque in Aleppo. The great minaret – […]

Australian Muslims ought to know they’re accepted and honoured…

Demon of division must be denied October 10, 2015

Letter to a new Prime Minister

I was going to write a letter to Australia’s

Climate Change, not Terrorism, is the greatest threat in the Middle East

The World

Games Politicians Play (no wonder we are cynical)

[1] Why politicians love to play the wedge-and-block-game September 2, 2015 Ross Gittins Illustration: Kerrie Leishman. It came to me while I was lying awake the other night: the business, union and community worthies at last week’s National Reform Summit thought the way to make progress was to hammer out a compromise proposal most people […]

Review: Dave Andrews, The Jihad of Jesus (2015)

[First go here for some representative quotes about Christianity vs Islam.

Refugee Crisis: worst since World War 2

Refugee crisis: Millions of people fleeing war and poverty August 25, 2015 How many more lives must be lost before nations everywhere, including Australia, recognise their universal duty to assist in what has become the greatest crisis of refugees and mass migration since World War II? Many hundreds of thousands of people have crossed into […]